Europe's security system in need of an overhaulRussia's proposal for a European security treaty lacks credibility but touches upon cruciaPertti Joenniemi, senior researcher at DIIS, and Sergei Prozorov, fellow at the Helsinki University Collegium for Advanced Studies, note that Russia’s proposal for a European Security Treaty is premised on rather conventional thinking. Rather than speaking of Helsinki Plus the proper label is, they argue, Helsinki Minus. They also claim that currently Europe is void of any jointly agreed approach and in this sense there is ground to speak of European security at ground zero. For the text of the contribution published in Open Democracy 29.4 see here |
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